It'd be a separate volume, but Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated. Or you could go another route and read Anthony Burgess's Re-Joyce, which attempts to make the case that annotations are unnecessary.
I think I'd rather go with the annotated, just because like if I get to the end of the book about why we don't need annotations then I could have just read Ulysses without annotations in that time, and if I disagree at the end then I have to read the annotations anyway. :galaxy-brain:
Damn, the annotations book is 700 pages long? And that doesn't include Ulysses? That's intimidating damn.
It's basically footnotes. Useful as a reference but not necessary to read cover-to-cover. Like, there's a part in the "Cyclops" episode that's a few pages of ridiculous names, and Gifford tells you what they're referring to. But you don't need to know that Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler means "penis in bath, inhabitant of the valley of testicles" to know that it's a funny name.
It'd be a separate volume, but Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated. Or you could go another route and read Anthony Burgess's Re-Joyce, which attempts to make the case that annotations are unnecessary.
I think I'd rather go with the annotated, just because like if I get to the end of the book about why we don't need annotations then I could have just read Ulysses without annotations in that time, and if I disagree at the end then I have to read the annotations anyway. :galaxy-brain:
Damn, the annotations book is 700 pages long? And that doesn't include Ulysses? That's intimidating damn.
It's basically footnotes. Useful as a reference but not necessary to read cover-to-cover. Like, there's a part in the "Cyclops" episode that's a few pages of ridiculous names, and Gifford tells you what they're referring to. But you don't need to know that Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler means "penis in bath, inhabitant of the valley of testicles" to know that it's a funny name.